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  • Aizawl: Alongwith the rest of the world, International Anti Corruption Day was also observed here in Aizawl. In this regard, a seminar was held at the I & PR Conference Hall in which the state Governor Vakkom Purushothaman inaugurated it. ...
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  • Imphal: The Manipur unit of Naga People's Front (NPF) has begun its official electioneering process by inviting interested candidates who are willing to contest from the NPF ticket in the forthcoming Manipur assembly election. ...
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  • Imphal: A father-son duo has been reportedly kidnapped by suspected militants in connection with a monitory demand made to Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED). ...
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  • Shillong: The  Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM)'s proposed merger with the United Democratic Party (UDP) is not in contravention with the clauses of the 10th Scheduled of the Indian Constitution, According to the Speaker of the Meghalaya legislative assembly, Charles Pyngrope. ...
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  • Shillong: The first day of the Public Information Campaign on Bharat Nirman programmes organized by the central media units like PIB, DFP, DAVP, All India Radio, DDK and Song & Drama Division in collaboration with the District Administration, West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya was inaugurated today by Dr. A. Pariong, Parliamentary Secretary, government of Meghalaya. ...
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  • Imphal: In a move to put pressure on both the State and Central Governments to make more clear regarding the issue of "Supra-State Body", the BJP Wednesday said the party does not trust with the clarification made by the Prime Minister during his recent visit to Manipur on the proposed offer to the Nagas by the UPA Government at the Centre. ...
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  • Imphal: The 22nd LSA Meet 2012 is all set to celebrate with the message of ‘brotherhood" early January at Oklong, the first Zeliangrong village also known as Guangphungning in Senapati district which is being organized by Central Executive Committee of Liangmai Sports Association (LSA) Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. ...
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  • Imphal: Many of the youths studying in higher secondary standard in Manipur are reportedly indulging in sex with commercial sex workers and often these young boys in turn forced to entice their girl friends in the same practice that often resulted in the increase of crimes against women and girls are subjected to lose their virginity early age. ...
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  • Imphal: Renown Manipuri singer Tapta alias L. Jayenta will be on the stage next month to present his 15 songs, including two new numbers based on the recently lifted 120-day-long economic blockade on the national highways to give a message to the public that now the time is almost over for further tolerance. ...
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  • SHILLONG: Meghalaya Police Football Team (MLPFT) defeated Mizoram XI 2-0 to reach the quarter-final of the 22nd All India Meghalaya Invitation Football Tournament at the First Division Ground, Polo here recently.
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Decentralisation in Meghalaya

- Paul H Shylla

Local self governance is not an entirely new concept to Meghalaya. This is a fact which has come in between the Centre’s move for decentralisation in the state. As one of the three states in the Northeast exempted from Part IX of the Constitution, Meghalaya is out of the purview of the 73rd Amendment which provides the basic frame of local government in rural areas beginning with the village assembly up to the district panchayat.

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Every drop counts

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Nearly 97% of all the earth’s water is salty or undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves 1% for all our needs...
With only 1% of the earth’s water reserved for human use, don’t you think we should treat our water with a little more respect?

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Is Tripura heading for central intervention?

Tapas Dey

Tripura Finance Minister, Badal Chowdhury

In any federal structure of governance Central intervention in the affairs of a State Government happens only in extreme cases on the basis of specific constitutional mandates.The framers of our constitution had visualized certain scenarios where Central intervention in the affairs of a state might be called for in the interest of national integration and security.

Nothing illustrates the point better than the provision made in Article 356 which mandates Central intervention or inter alia imposition of Central rule in the event of ‘constitutional breakdown’ or a condition in which the governance of a state can not be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Indian Constitution. Besides, Article 352 which enables the Centre to dismiss a State Government and impose Central rule in the event of emergencies like external aggression or internal disturbance in a state or in the whole of India.

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Congress on the path of revival and renewal in Tripura

After a long lapse Congress in Tripura seems to have been infused with a new life and vitality following an initiative taken by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to revitalise the factionally fragmented party with an eye on the assembly elections slated for 2013. Long before the Congress and Trinamool had unseated the Left Front government in West Bengal, the AICC had taken an initiative to revitalise the party here by putting veteran leader and former Goa Chief Minister Luiziano Faleiro in charge of the state. 

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